Welcome to The Carbon Monoxide and Gas Safety Society website
Survivors/Victims
We're very sorry you've had to visit our website but PLEASE do the following:
1. Contact us as soon as possible - If you wait we cannot help you as much as if you call immediately.
If you don't speak to me preserve the situation as much as possible BUT allow the Gas Emergency Service to cut off appliances for your safety - this won't compromise your situation.
2. Go immediately to your nearest hospital and ask for a breath or blood test for CO - Carbon Monoxide - and tell them Arterial blood is NOT necessary. Just visiting the GP or A & E may be helpful to show how ill you were feeling.
Please note being in fresh air quickly reduces the amount of CO in your blood so a negative blood test does not mean your home or work place is safe.
3. Ideally, email office@co-gassafety.co.uk as it will save you a costly call if I, Stephanie Trotter*, OBE, am abroad. If you email you are a CO victim asking for help, I will help or refer you to someone in the UK if I'm outside the UK.
4. I try to operate an informal helpline you can call on 07803 088688. If you don't speak to me leave a message and send a text with your correct number to call you back on.
5. If I know I am too busy to respond I will put a lawyer's number on this website here.
6. Please note that we do NOT offer counselling in the sense of bereavement counselling. Nor do we offer legal advice. What we do offer is the chance to talk to someone who knows about CO and has talked to victims, survivors and friends and families for over 25 years. We help you to preserve the situation and give you time to work out what you want to do. We can put you in touch with lawyers who will talk to you initially free. Neither the charity nor anyone connected with the charity receives any fees for such referrals.
* Please click here for a short CV about Stephanie Trotter, OBE
One Survivor's Story
Sue Westwood kindly agreed to be filmed for us.
Pen-Y-Fan Walk
Thank you to all the friends and family of a girl who died of carbon monoxide poisoning and in whose memory we walked Pen-Y-Fan on Saturday 4th October 2014.
Following Gas Safety Week September 2014, Stephanie Trotter, OBE, President and Director of CO-Gas Safety participated in a charity mountain climb. Read more...
Want to buy a CO alarm now?
Visit www.safefiredirect.co.uk or Tel. 0800 955 3600.
Quote COGAS2012 for a discount and provide us with a £1 donation.
Our Latest News – Please see News section.
- Widow’s campaign highlights dangers of carbon monoxide February 16, 2021
- Lots of nice congratulations for the charity’s and my work anniversary February 2, 2021
- Press Release Monday 25th January 2021 January 24, 2021
- Competition about CO for school pupils! January 21, 2021
- Week in the life of a gas engineer October 2020 January 13, 2021
- Briefing note sent to Barry Sheerman MP and Baroness Finlay co-chairs of APPCOG November 14, 2020
- British Gas engineers found 26,000 unsafe or dangerous gas and electric appliances in UK homes during the first eight months of the year November 14, 2020
- Air pollution accounts for 20% of all newborn deaths worldwide October 21, 2020
Multi-fuel fires/boilers
CO-Gas Safety has been receiving complaints about multi-fuel fires. We are not sure what the problem is and thought that you might help us by filling in this form. Thank you very much indeed.
If we receive many responses we will try to collate them and bring out a report.
IMPORTANT SAFETY WARNING ON BELLING & NEW WORLD COOKERS
If not used correctly, affected cookers can produce dangerous levels of Carbon Monoxide which can cause serious injury or death.
DO YOU HAVE AN AFFECTED COOKER? CLICK HERE TO VIEW AFFECTED COOKERS.
IMPORTANT SAFETY WARNING ON LEISURE & FLAVEL GAS COOKERS
Serious risk of carbon monoxide poisoning which can be fatal.
CHECK HERE TO SEE IF YOU OWN ONE OF THE AFFECTED COOKERS
IMPORTANT SAFETY WARNING ON CAMPING GAS LAMP
Updated 17.03.16
You cannot see it, smell it or taste it but Carbon Monoxide (CO) can kill you. The elderly and young are at higher risk than healthy adults. They also spend more time at home.
View our film on how families' lives have been devastated by CO poisoning.
As an extra safeguard, you can buy Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarms in any good home/DIY store. Please ensure it is to EN50291. This standard of alarm should not cost more than £20.
How to prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
CO-Gas Safety publishes on this site an alphabetical list of recorded deaths from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning since 1st September 1995.
The list of deaths
We are an independent registered charity with cross party support at the House of Commons and European parliament. we were founded by Molly Maher and Nigel Griffiths, MP.
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